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Community-Based Interventions for Hypertension Control in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
Background: Hypertension remains a leading cause of cardiovascular disease in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), where control rates are persistently low. Community-based strategies are promising approaches to overcome barriers to care. Objective: To
Danladi C. Husaini, Sophia Barillas, Laci Dyck, Rangeli Camal, Chukwuemeka Nwokocha, Orish E. Orisakwe   +5 more
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Village Water Boards and Sustainability Of the Rural Water System in Belize

Journal of Rural and Community Development
Background: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 aims to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all by 2030.
Olusola Oladeji, Isodoro Charles Galvez, Angella Edith Baitwabusa   +2 more
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Belize’s 2016–17 Sovereign Debt Restructuring – Third Time Lucky?

Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, 2020
This paper examines the causes, process, and outcome of Belize’s 2016–17 sovereign debt restructuring – its third episode in last 10 years. As was the case in the earlier two restructurings, in 2006–07 and in 2012–13, the 2016–17 debt restructuring was ...
Tamon Asonuma, Michael G. Papaioannou, Eriko Togo, Bert van Selm   +3 more
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Caracol, Belize, and Changing Perceptions of Ancient Maya Society

, 2017
Archaeological research at Caracol, an ancient Maya site that was rediscovered in 1937, has become a major resource in the interpretation and understanding of the ancient Maya.
Diane Z. Chase, Arlen F. Chase
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Description of Lutzomyia (Coromyia) disneyi, n. sp. (Diptera: Psychodidae-Phlebotominae) from Belize, Central America Descrição de Lutzomyia (Coromyia) disneyi n. sp. (Diptera: Psychodidae - Phlebotominae) de Belize, America Central

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1987
The commonest sand fly in limestone caves in Belize, Central America, previously, referred to as Lutzomyia beltrani (Belize form), is described as Lutzomyia (Coromyia) disneyi n.
Paul Williams
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DEFORESTATION ALONG THE MAYA MOUNTAIN MASSIF BELIZE-GUATEMALA BORDER [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2016
In recent years trans-boundary incursions from Petén, Guatemala into Belize’s Maya Mountain Massif (MMM) have increased. The incursions are rapidly degrading cultural and natural resources in Belize’s protected areas. Given the local, regional and global
S. D. Chicas, S. D. Chicas, K. Omine, B. Arevalo, J. B. Ford, K. Sugimura   +5 more
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Integrating Science-Based Co-management, Partnerships, Participatory Processes and Stewardship Incentives to Improve the Performance of Small-Scale Fisheries

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017
Small scale fisheries are critically important for the provision of food security, livelihoods, and economic development for billions of people. Yet, most of these fisheries appear to not be achieving either fisheries or conservation goals, with respect ...
Kendra A. Karr, Rod Fujita, Ramon Carcamo, Lawrence Epstein, James R. Foley, José A. Fraire-Cervantes, Mauro Gongora, Ollin T. Gonzalez-Cuellar, Pablo Granados-Dieseldorff, Julius Guirjen, Amy H. Weaver, Héctor Licón-González, Emilie Litsinger, Julio Maaz, Roquelito Mancao, Valerie Miller, Rafael Ortiz-Rodriguez, Tomás Plomozo-Lugo, Laura F. Rodriguez-Harker, Salvador Rodríguez-Van Dyck, Aristóteles Stavrinaky, Cristina Villanueva-Aznar, Beverly Wade, Daniel Whittle, Jacob P. Kritzer   +24 more
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Social Factors Affecting Sustainable Shark Conservation and Management in Belize

Sustainability, 2019
Predatory sharks contribute to healthy coral reef ecosystems; however their populations are declining. This paper explores some of the important social factors affecting shark conservation outcomes in Belize through a qualitative analysis of the shark ...
S. Sabbagh, G. Hickey
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Peatland diversity in Belizean wetlands and the challenges of greenhouse gas reporting

Scientific Reports
Despite the important climate change mitigation and adaptation benefits, including carbon storage and hydrological regulation that they provide, peatlands in the Caribbean are poorly characterized and increasingly under threat.
Cristina Malpica-Piñeros, Hannah K. Morrissette, Astrid Iglesias, Edgar Correa, Florencia Guerra, Hans Joosten, Israel Correa, Jan Peters, Julie Loisel, Kimberly Jensen, Liborio Santos, Luis Balan, Mercedes Carcamo, Michael Latimer, Ninon Martinez, Stacy K. Baez, Terrell Sabal, Tre McKoy, Samer Elshehawi   +18 more
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Rastafarianism in Bullet Tree Falls, Belize: Exploring the Effects of International Trends

Societies, 2020
In 1991, a group of Rastafarians in the village of Bullet Tree Falls, Belize, started out adhering to the principles of piety and protest that characterized the Rastafarians when began in Jamaica in the 1930s.
Andrew Gordon
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